Washington DC plane crash victim was on way home from grandfather's funeral, family reveals A victim aboard the Washington DC plane which collided mid air with a Black Hawk helicopter was on her way back to university after her grandfather’s funeral, her family confirmed.
Another which has been confirmed was 20-year-old university student Grace Maxwell, who was flying through the capital back to Ohio from the funeral of her grandfather - her father confirmed to the Wichita Eagle.
The school said in a statement: “Grace was scheduled to serve on a project team this semester that would begin to create a hand-stabilizing device for a differently enabled Dayton boy so he could feed himself rather than relying on others.”.
The US President, 78, also made an awkward joke about the site of the Washington DC plane crash .
Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who famously landed a passenger plane on the Hudson River in New York City in 2009, shared his take on the tragedy.
